Rún is the Old Norse spelling of ‘rune’ and it came into Irish where it means ‘inscription’, ‘intent’, ‘secret’, and by extension a secret or treasured love. It has also been borrowed into Finnish where ‘runo’ means ‘poem’. The poets Robert Graves and Valentin Iremonger in a correspondence in 1944 described poetry as ‘a shared secret’.

Rún Press publishes substantial collections of poems, and books about poetry, by poets whose work is already known through previous publications. Its imprint, Parmenides Books (www.parmenidesbooks.ie) publishes ‘crossover’ books between literature and neuroscience.

David Cameron – The Bright Tethers, Poems 1988-2016

The first collection from this award-winning poet who, as Seamus Heaney remarked, ‘provides an answer to Frost’s wish for poems about subjects common in experience but rare in books.’

David Cameron was born in Glasgow in 1966 and lives in N Ireland. He is the author of two books of fiction, Rousseau Moon and The Ghost of Alice Fields, and in 2014 won the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry.

Although many of his poems are about ordinary things, they are not ordinary poems. Robert Nye described Cameron’s writing as possessing ‘a quality of verbalalchemy by which it transmutes the base matter of common experience into something like gold’.

Contains all poems from his published volumes, a selection of translations, and unpublished poems. This collection enables Seymour-Smith, widely known as a critic and encyclopaedist of literature, to take his rightful place as a pre-eminent 20th century English poet. Click photos for more.

Rún is the Old Norse spelling of ‘rune’ and it came into Irish where it means ‘inscription’, ‘intent’, ‘secret’, and by extension a secret or treasured love. It has also been borrowed into Finnish where ‘runo’ means ‘poem’. The poets Robert Graves and Valentin Iremonger in a correspondence in 1944 described poetry as ‘a shared secret’.

Rún Press has been founded to publish occasional books of poetry and literature. Its first books initiate a series of ‘Pocket Poems’ in hardback, of poets whose poems so far have been available only in various separate volumes. Pocket Poems An imprint of Rún Press, Parmenides Books (www.parmenidesbooks.ie) publishes softback and E-book editions of ‘crossover’ books in the fields of poetry, psychology, and neuroscience. Rún Press also distributes occasional books from Stone Flower Press, Canada.

This collection is as close to complete as we have found possible: it includes all poems from his published volumes and a few unpublished. Click photos for more info.

The Poems of Martin Seymour-Smith

Contains all poems from his published volumes, a selection of translations, and unpublished poems. This collection enables Seymour-Smith, widely known as a critic and encyclopaedist of literature, to take his rightful place as a pre-eminent 20th century English poet. Click photos for more.
PUBLICATION – SPRING 2014